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New thoughts and reflections from the authors of the inspirational New York Times bestseller Same Kind of Different... more

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  What Difference Do It Make?: Stories of Hope and Healing

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  • Posted:Sep-22-2009

  • We CAN make a difference!
  • This is a follow up book to one which I did not read called "Same Kind of Different As Me". Now that I have read this book, I am interested in reading the original one too. With all that is going...
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This unique volume brings together for the first time three decades of short stories by one of the most innovative... more

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  The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008

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  • Posted:Jan-29-2009

  • The Red Convertible
  • I was first smitten with Louise Erdrich's writing by reading her "Tracks",
    which I found utterly spellbinding. I was disappointed with two other of her books, Love Medicine and The Bingo...
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Dancers in the Dark by New York Times bestselling author Charlaine HarrisDancer Layla Rue Le May's childhood prepared... more

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  Night's Edge: Dancers in the Dark\Her Best Enemy\Someone Else's Shadow

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  • Posted:Mar-04-2009

  • Decent.
  • I only picked it up for the Charlaine Harris (since I am hopelessly addicted), and didn't know the other two writers. I found both other stories actually frightening (since I am not a horror...
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  • Posted:Dec-28-2005

  • Great Anthology.
  • This is probably the first anthology I've read were I didn't come across a story that I didn't like.
    
    The first story is "Her Best Enemy" by Maggie Shayne. This was a great haunted house...
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A National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Editors' ChoiceA Pulishers Weekly Best Book of the... more

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  Birds of America: Stories

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  • Posted:Jul-05-2009

  • Interesting stories
  • I read these stories a few years ago now. They are a little dark and disturbing....which is good (for some). I enjoyed them, and think it's about time to re-read them.
    Good book...but buy it...
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  • Posted:May-27-2009

  • I know she was going for something minutely empathetic, but...
  • I feel like kind of a jerk reviewing this lowly. I mean, it was...it was nice. They're sweet, funny-ish, lovely-written. Just loses it's charm after five or six stories where.... "I hold an odd job...
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  • Posted:Jun-03-2004

  • good not her best
  • Apart from the fact that I was put off by the author's piece on her son's cancer (she was writing about a heart-wrenching subject in a too dryly ironic mode - that repelled me), the rest of the...
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Flannery O'Connor, a unique and important figure in the Southern literary tradition, was one of the finest writers of... more

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  Flannery O'Connor : Collected Works : Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear...

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  • Posted:May-24-2009

  • A Marvelous Talent
  • But for the final episode of the TV Series, Lost, this season, I would never have read Flannery O'Connor. She died in 1964, and I thought of her as one of those boring writers whom only the...
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  • Posted:Apr-09-2004

  • brilliant stories in a flawed edition
  • The stories themselves easily get a five. O'Connor was a genius, combining her Catholicism, her Southern-ness, and the grotesque in stories that explore the nature of revelation, grace (or the...
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Thirteen darkly comic stories, Dangerous Laughter is a mesmerizing journey that stretches the boundaries of the... more

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  Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

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  • Posted:Feb-03-2009

  • good ideas, mediocre prose
  • This book is my first exposure to Millhauser. I might even give him another try, but this book annoyed me.
    He takes on some intriguing ideas and flogs them to death with redundant "gosh, do I...
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  • Posted:Jan-17-2009

  • Not Milhauser's Best
  • Milhauser uses exaggeration as a literary device. This works well in his novels, where it is just one of many elements. However, in these short stories, where it is the primary focus, it often...
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  • Posted:Jan-06-2009

  • More than the sum of its parts
  • Very rarely do I find a short story collection in which I like every story, but this is one such collection. Divided into three sections with four stories each, and adding an introductory tale to...
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When it was first published in 1993, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven established Sherman Alexie as a... more

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  The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

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  • Posted:Aug-03-2009

  • I loved this book!
  • I was originally required to read this book for my English class, but I ended up really enjoying it. Sherman Alexie is an outstanding author and I plan on reading more of his work. I think...
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  • Posted:Aug-10-2008

  • Parents Beware!
  • My son was required to read this book for his freshman high school class. It is full of the f-word and other foul language. It also is replete with drugs, binge drinking, and overt sexual...
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  • Posted:Sep-03-2007

  • "Everybody in this book is drunk or in love with a drunk."
  • States Alexie in the introduction (pp xviii, xix) to this collection of short stories. Of his leap from literary obscurity to published author and member of the middle-class, he writes, "all...
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THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR In this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's... more

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  The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition

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  • Posted:Jan-02-2009

  • A Very Good Collection, With A Few Exceptions
  • Having read several of Hemingway's longer novels (The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls) I looked forward to this collection with great anticipation. My appetite was...
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  • Posted:May-01-2008

  • Well crafted
  • I agree that Hemingway wrote well crafted stories. He was definitely a master at this. However, writing stories that hold the readers attention, is a quality that was lacking. Overall, the stories...
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  • The short happy life of Francis Macomber
  • I like Hemingway, I have never developed the passion for him that so many others have had. The Old Man and the Sea was really, really well done, as was For Whom the Bell Tolls. As for most of the...
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This complete collection includes all the published stories of Eudora Welty. There are forty-one stories in all,... more

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  The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

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  • Posted:Aug-14-2009

  • Amazing
  • Absolutely compelling stories about the South. What a brilliant and lovely writer. Honest and captivating.
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  • Posted:Jan-22-2009

  • Amazing Analogies and Characterizations
  • Welty is a short story writer that I have tried very hard to like. I'm still culling through her large opus of stories and do have a couple of favorites. I liked A Curtain of Green, but to me...
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  • I'll stick to Flannery
  • These other critics need a sample of madame O'Connor. They'd then see the error in their statements. Muera a Eudora!
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This magisterial collection of short works by Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner reminds readers of his... more

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  Collected Stories

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  • Posted:Sep-16-2009

  • Bill, if we ever needed you, there's no time like the present.
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The third in a six-volume series, Volume 3: This Mortal Mountain contains Zelazny's short works from the late 1960s... more

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Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa... more

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  Interpreter of Maladies

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  • Posted:Sep-16-2009

  • Disappointed
  • The stories are well written and would likely be given an "A" in a college composition class but are not the least memorable or even particularly entertaining.
    I don't understand why this book...
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  • Posted:Aug-26-2009

  • Couples
  • This is a compelling short story collection. For example, a couple suffers a loss of a baby and a loss of their lives together, belief in their future together being absent on the part of one of...
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  • Interpreter of Maladies - depressing genius
  • Interpreter of Maladies makes it clear why Jhumpa Lahiri has garnered so much critical acclaim. She tells stories with such honesty and portrays the everyday lives of her characters so accurately...
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Jesus' Son is a visionary chronicle of dreamers, addicts, and lost souls. These stories tell of spiraling grief and... more

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  Jesus' Son: Stories

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  • Jesus' Son
  • Completely worth reading, I just wish it was longer. Regardless the length is not a problem as the book manages to pack in so much into a small space
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  • OK, but not as good as i had heard
  • I had heard that this was some seminal work in the history of literature. Maybe that's because i was living in Iowa City at the time, or maybe some people just like stories of guys getting F'd up....
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  • Wasn't thrilled but couldn't put it down?
  • While the stories are jagged and hard to follow, there's something in the writing that makes you keep reading. The descriptions are very well done. You can't logically figure out what they're...
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  First Spanish Reader: A Beginner's Dual-Language Book (Beginners' Guides)

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  • First Spanish Reader Review by James
  • This is James from James Spanish (the learning Spanish blog). Reading your first book in Spanish is a thrilling experience, but trying to read a Spanish novel without help can be frustrating and...
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  • Confusing interpretations
  • It is what I wanted--stories matched in Spanish and English. However, confusing from the standpoint that translated words (*from Spanish to English) did not match the dictionary's definition for...
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  • Not for Beginners
  • This book is not for beginners for sure. One needs to know the basics before you buy this one. For me, I'd say waste of money.
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  The World's Greatest Short Stories (Thrift Edition)

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  • A constant bargain!
  • These Dover books are always a prize. Always priced right, interesting, durable and attractive covers with priceless selections. Can't go wrong any way you look at them. ~Bruin~
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  Self-Help

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  • Surprisingly Good
  • I love Lorrie Moore, but I tend to avoid second person narration. She's one of the few that pulled it off for this reader. I highly recommend this book.
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  • This book should try medication
  • Maybe it was the mood I was in when I read this book, because I really loved "Birds of America," but man, did this book depress me. Every single story with the exception of maybe two ("How to Have...
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  • Some strong stories with filler
  • "Self-Help" is an uneven collection of short stories, but the bad outweighs the good here. I suggest sticking with the standout pieces and skipping the rest. The opening piece, "How to Be an Other...
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  Nine Stories

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  • Love this book
  • I'm never without it. It's a constant companion for me. I bought this edition to replace 'For Esme With Love and Squalor' (the same collection under a different name) which I gave to a friend.
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  • I couldn't get into this book
  • A friend I work with loaned it to me because he adores Salinger and I just couldn't get into it! It was for me, kind of boring and I hate to say that because I adore the classics and I really,...
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  • A mediocre collection outside the context of the Glass family saga . . .
  • Salinger's cultish adoration and said cult's focus on the Glass family may be the only reason this collection has been canonized and subsequently adored (or vise-versa). That's not to say the...
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  Four Blind Mice

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  • John Sampson in spotlight
  • Thisis a change of pace in that John Sampson plays a much bigger role in this novel in fact the framed up execution of one of Sampsons friends starts the investigation. Atrio of assassins is...
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  • a war that didnt finish
  • Alex Cross and buddy John Sampson are hot on the trail of a set of unusual murders that have been blamed on former Vietnam vets. Why are they being set up? And who is the fourth blind mouse?...
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  • I keep looking for another Patterson thriller but this wasn't it
  • A lot of loose ends abound, such as why the innocent victims were selected, how the master minds operated from solitary confinement in prison, and how all the evidence was fabricated
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  My Year of Meats

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  • Posted:Aug-21-2008

  • wholesome and tasty food for thought
  • This book is funny, sexy, informative, and touching. I resisted reading it for a long time because I thought it was just going to be anti-meat propaganda, filled with info I already knew about,...
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  • Good, but still a rough draft
  • What starts off as an exploration of personal identity--about a half-Japanese, half-Caucasian woman who is connected to both cultures through her family and job but feels she belongs to...
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  • a poorly written novel
  • Have you ever had a really attractive girl wholeheartedly recommend a book to you? And have you ever been annoyed that this book turned out to be shallow propaganda, where there are no characters...
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